November 2009

Movable Type 5 Status

Movable Type 5 will be available December 8th in the US and European markets. It’s been moved one week to provide more time for coordination of the release and associated documentation. MT5 was released in Japan on Nov 26th. Hold tight and you’ll have Movable Type 5 shortly. Thanks. Movable Type 5.0 RC3 was available from Nov 19th to 25th. Because MT5 was released in Japan, we have taken down the betas until MT5 is officially released in the US. Fixes in Movable Type 5 Release Candidate 3 Resolved Issues FogBugz 103151: Yahoo! (and possibly Yahoo! Japan) may have to be removed from the list of commenter auth (Fixed : 103151) FogBugz 103149: funny URL on blog create screen. (Fixed : 103149) Additional known issues on RC3 FogBugz 103142: “Statement has no result columns to bind” error occurs in with old MySQL client. Please update DBI and DBD::mysql. ( 103142)…

Movable Type 5.0 Release Candidate 2

Movable Type 5.0 Release Candidate 2 is now available. Here’s the highlights… A lot of work to get the dynamic publishing in sync with the static publishing. Updates to the Professional blog templates Unbundling of Motion and Action Streams The Entry/Page “previous” and “next” container tags now account for entries/pages with the same date-time, rather than skipping them. And many more bug fixes. Release Notes for MT5 RC2 Movable Type 5.0 RC2 Release Notes Resolved Issues in MT5 RC2 Known Issues in MT5.0 “Won’t Fix” in MT5 Download Warning! - This software is not recommended for any production environment. Movable Type 5.0 Pro Betas (available in English, Japanese, German, Spanish, Dutch and French.) Check out the Pre-Release Software License Agreement for more details about using the software. Please report bugs and submit feature requests you find. Plugin Support Many MT4 plugins will work with MT5 (or only need minor updates) as much of the core functionality in MT5 hasn’t changed dramatically. Plugins which do not work correctly in MT5 due to the following reasons: The most common reasons for plugins not working in MT5: Plugin relies on a transformers (code which searches for other code to replace) may be broken…

Movable Type 5.0 Release Candidate 1

Movable Type 5.0 RC1 is available today. Here are the highlights… New Theme Pico, a clean and simple theme (also available on TypePad and designed by Jim Ramsey) is now bundled with MT5. Styles can also be bundled with a theme to easily offer different flavors of a theme. (Styles are a combination of a stylesheet and images to bundle with a theme.) Documentation MT5 documentation is beginning to appear online. We’re releasing them as they are available: English: www.movabletype.org/documentation/mt5/ Japanese: www.movabletype.jp/documentation/mt5/ Some documents are still in a draft state. Please leave any comments on the individual docs if you have questions or comments. Issues Triaged Resolved Issues in MT5 RC1 Known Issues in MT5.0 “Won’t Fix” in MT5 Download Warning! - This is beta software and is not recommended in any production environment. Movable Type 5.0 Pro Betas (available in English and Japanese) Check out the Pre-Release Software License Agreement for more details about using the software. Please report bugs and submit feature requests you find. Release Schedule The release schedule has been updated, here’s the current plan: MT5.0 RC2 - scheduled for November 18th. MT5.0 - first week of December (November 26th in Japan) should all go according…

Movable Type 5 Documentation

Thanks for everyone’s input and suggestions to improve the documentation for MT5. Here’s a list of places to find updated and brand-new documentation: MT5 Documentation Index - an index listing all pages which are tagged Updated for MT5, New in MT5, or Bug in MT5 Recently Updated Documentation One highlight…. Creating themes for MT5 - this was requested by lots of people in the community and should get you started. Our goal is to create a few sample themes, and place them in a GitHub repository. The documentation for MT5 is being initially created by the Japanese Movable Type team as they are leading development of MT5. We’re working with a translator to convert to English and then going through each document to clean it up, reformat it, test it, and add more examples. We’ve been notifying the Japanese team whenever we have significantly changed the document so that they can translate it back to Japanese. Next up is the process of converting the documentation site itself to a more topic-based structure, rather than the current organization (by user-type). We’re converting pages that list tags in Movable Type to index templates with loops to output pages: by folder, tag, etc….